The Architecture of Paul Rudolph - Hardcover

Rohan, Timothy M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300149395 ISBN 13: 9780300149395

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The first major study of one of the most important architects of the postwar era

Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918–1997) shaped both late modernist architecture and a generation of architects while chairing Yale’s department of architecture from 1958 to 1965. Based on extensive archival research and unpublished materials, The ArchitectureofPaul Rudolph is the first in-depth study of the architect, neglected since his postwar zenith.
 
Author Timothy M. Rohan unearths the ideas that informed Rudolph’s architecture, from his Florida beach houses of the 1940s to his concrete buildings of the 1960s to his lesser-known East Asian skyscrapers of the 1990s. Situating Rudolph within the architectural discourse of his day, Rohan shows how Rudolph countered the perceived monotony of mid-century modernism with a dramatically expressive architecture for postwar America, exemplified by his Yale Art and Architecture Building of 1963, famously clad in corrugated concrete. The fascinating story of Rudolph’s spectacular rise and fall considerably deepens longstanding conceptions about postwar architecture: Rudolph emerges as a pivotal figure who anticipated new directions for architecture, ranging from postmodernism to sustainability. 

About this title

Book Description:

The first major study of one of the most important architects of the postwar era, situating Paul Rudolph as a pivotal figure who anticipated new directions for architecture from postmodernism to sustainability.

About the Author:

Timothy M. Rohan is associate professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300149395
• ISBN 13: 9780300149395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290